| protocells | Autotrophic | Heterotrophic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemosynthetic | Photosynthetic | Mobile | Sessile | ||
| Prokaryotic Cells small, simple | Kingdom Archea Three strains, all heat sensitive and anaerobic. | Kingdom Eubacteria Aerobic Photosynthetic Bacteria. Formerly called blue-green algae. | Kingdom Eubacteria Aerobic spirochetes. | Kingdom Eubacteria Aerobic spored bacteria | Unicellular |
| Eukaryotic Cells large and complex. Evolved as symbiosis of prokaryotes. | No kingdoms evolved on earth. | Kingdom Protista Green, golden, red, and brown unicellular algae. | Kingdom Protista Protozoans- amoebae, ciliates, flagellates | Kingdom Protista Sporozoans like plasmodium. | Unicellular |
| Kingdom Fungi yeast | |||||
| Eukaryotic Cells organized as tissues, then organs and organ systems | Kingdom Plantae Seaweeds and kelp, mosses, liverworts, spores plants (club mosses & ferns), gymnosperms, and flowering plants | Kingdom Animalia sponges, coelenterates, flatworms, roundworms, mollusks, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms and chordates | Kingdom Fungi Ascomycete, basidiomycete, phycomycetes, and fungi imperfecti. | Multicellular | |
| Humans | Societal | ||||
| Notes- Darwinian competition fills out the members of each box, Margulian cooperation allows each new layer to form. Protocells are placed at the top left, indicating that they have proto-cellular structure, no cellular organization, and no intrinsic trophic function. | |||||